Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planes could brake themselves on the air and alight as abruptly as birds do by reversing the thrust that gives them flight, aviation would be vastly safer and more convenient. To this end, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., radio and television expert, has been applying himself lately to discover a literal "air brake." Last week he announced success...
Forty-eight hours before ascending he ceased to take solid food. Moreover he has trained himself to sleep for ten minutes every hour on his stool. Lest he topple off while asleep, his thumbs are thrust tightly into holes bored in the eight-inches-in-diameter wooden seat...
...glanced harmlessly off the limousine of Signor Benito Mussolini (TIME, Sept. 20), as the Premier was motoring slowly toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...
...policeman stared at a heavy padlock thrust through the nostrils of a grilled iron gate. At the sealed placard "CLOSED FOR VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT" he gazed with an expression of regret. Shaking his head, he muttered, "They hadn't ought to have done...
...four years are over, the gaunt spectre of divisionals has been met and, in most cases, thrust aside, and now for a brief week, the Senior sits high with the world at his feet: With the Baccalaureate Service tomorrow in Appleton Chapel opens a round of ceremonies, gay and solemn alike, calculated to send the graduate out from the University with a memory of a short hour of triumph to cap the remembrances of four years of struggles as an undergraduate...